root-directory not writable

Rather than use the -w test, attempt the chown and bail out if
it fails.

left join 

When creating a temporary TEXT/BLOB field from an Item in
Item::make_string_field(), the field's type was unconditionally
set to the one corresponding to the maximum length (i.e.
LONGTEXT/ LONGBLOB). This resulted in problems when exactly the
same TEXT/BLOB is type required in cases like CREATE ... SELECT
or creating internal temporary tables for joins. 

Fixed by calling a different constructor for Field_blob so that
an appropriate type is used depending on the Item's max_length
value.

Updated the result file for func_math.

This is the non-ndb part of the patch.

The return value of mysql_bin_log.write was ignored by most callers,
which may lead to inconsistent on master and slave if the transaction
was committed while the binlog was not correctly written. If
my_error() is call in mysql_bin_log.write, this could also lead to
assertion issue if my_ok() or my_error() is called after.

This fixed the problem by let the caller to check and handle the
return value of mysql_bin_log.write. This patch only adresses the
simple cases.

port from mysql-next (5.4?) to mysql-next-mr-bugfixes (5.5/5.6?)

3477 Mikael Ronstrom	2009-07-29
Bug#32115, made use of local lex object to avoid side effects of opening partitioned
tables

3478 Mikael Ronstrom	2009-07-29
Bug#32115, added an extra test in debug builds to ensure no dangling pointers to the
old lex object is still around

3479 Mikael Ronstrom	2009-07-29
Bug#32115, Removed an assert that was no longer needed

3480 Mikael Ronstrom	2009-08-05
Bug#32115, fixed review comments

3481 Mikael Ronstrom	2009-08-07
Bug#32115, remove now obsolete lex_start calls

port from mysql-next (5.4) to mysql-next-mr-bugfixing (5.5/5.6?)

2755 Konstantin Osipov	2008-11-27
Bug#32115 will remove the pre-requisite to initialize LEX to open tables.
This dependency was added in 5.1 and was supposed to be removed in 6.0.
Remove asserts and initialization of LEX in places where we don't deal
with partitioned tables.

Backport of the fix for BUG#40368 "mysqld_safe not honouring underscore same as dash on server options" from 6.0
(revision-id:guilhem@mysql.com-20090505113602-l12kxupeatve18dh).
Such bug led "mysqld_safe --core_file_size=#" to not work because mysqld_safe wouldn't recognize
that "ulimit -c" is needed; only --core-file-size=# worked. Same for --open_files_limit and other
options with _ where mysqld_safe needs to do something more than passing to mysqld.
Original fix by Erik Ljungstrom erik at ibiblio dot org ; slightly modified here.
Tested on all internally accessible Unix.

Backport from 6.0.14 to 5.6.0

Original code from Guilhem Bichot

Backport from 6.0.14 to 5.6.0

Original code from Sergei Golubchik

Backport from 6.0.14 to 5.6.0

Original code from Sergei Golubchik

      
Just change mysql_foo to mysql_cv_foo for one cache-id variable name.  There
was only one bad variable name, present in 5.0 and 5.1, but not in the -pe
branch.


Backported to 5.6.0  (mysql-next-mr-runtime)

           STRING_RESULT argument

There is a "magic" number for precision : NOT_FIXED_DEC. 
This means that the precision is not a fixed number.
But this constant was re-defined in several files and 
was not available to the UDF developers.
 
Moved the NOT_FIXED_DEC definition to the correct header
and removed the redundant definitions.

Backported to 5.6.0  (mysql-next-mr-runtime)